It's the season of giving... And online shopping! Ever wonder what happens to all those cardboard boxes after you toss them in the recycling? Well, they head to Box Mountain!
Mountains of empty boxes are piled high at recycling centers across the country, due to the ever-growing appetite for online shopping. Cyber Monday smashed records as retailers reported $9.2 billion in sales. Kreigh Hampel is the coordinator at a recycling facility in Burbank, California, where more workers are being brought in to separate heaps of cardboard from other trash. He says there is a "cardboard tsunami" in California and part of the problem is due to the way packages are shipped.